mediaKomfort.berlin
dal 29/9/2007 al 10/11/2007
Segnalato da
29/9/2007
mediaKomfort.berlin
Bereznitsky Gallery, Berlin
Alexander Huilitsky and Lesia Zaiats. The artists' efforts in this show create a space which merges painting, animation, video sculpture and video installation. By means of their animated surface structure, every-day objects such as a plate, a sofa, a lamp or a carpet, become rife with atmosphere and the rhythmic progression of time. The artists are known as the Institution of Unstable Thoughts, an interdisciplinary cultural organization in Kiev, which they co-founded in 1996.
In it’s latest exhibition “media komfort (berlin)” the Bereznitsky Gallery displays the works of
Alexander Huilitsky and Lesia Zaiats, two artists recently featured at the Ukrainian pavilion of this
year’s Venice Biennale.
While Lesia Zaiats works with animation, sound and film techniques, Alexander Huilitsky draws on
methods from painting, poetry and drawing, as well as photography and sculpture. Jointly, the
artists are known as the “Institution of Unstable Thoughts”, an interdisciplinary cultural
organization in Kiev, which they co-founded in 1996. They have been producing collaborative
works under this name in both Kiev and Munich for years.
As with “media comfort”, an earlier version of their work for the Venice exhibition, the artists’
efforts in “media komfort (berlin)” create a space which merges painting, animation, video
sculpture and video installation. By means of their animated surface structure, every-day objects
such as a plate, a sofa, a lamp or a carpet, become rife with atmosphere and the rhythmic
progression of time.
Indeed, the focus lies not on technique or presentation, but on the intangible and ever elusive
presence of atmosphere. Persistently changing and expanding, the display never ceases to evolve,
constantly crossing the borders between genres. The beholder enters an environment conceived as
bearing the memory of objects, the remeniscences of which create an almost cinematic quality. In
contrast to film however, one may easily immerse oneself in the space’s non-linear narratives. The
story, with neither beginning nor end, only continuity, allows the viewer to linger at will. As the
differing cycles (loops) of individual objects, each with it’s inherent pulse, continuously diverge,
they form the parts of a sum which changes at every glance. They are strands in a flow of
adumbrations that render each viewing unique.
Invitation to the private viewing 29th of September 2007, from 7pm to 9pm
Bereznitsky Gallery
Kiew.Berlin, Linienstrasse 144, 10115 Berlin
Tue-Sat 11am-18pm